There's a whole bunch of great stuff in there, but the most interesting nugget is this: If you want to know what the NFL will look like in 10 years, you need to watch college football, because that's where all the innovation is taking place.

Here are the three basic things Bedard outlines that make the Patriots' offense new and different:

The overall philosophy: run as many plays per game as possible

A simplified terminology where plays have just one name

Running practices at a faster pace than ever before

They're keeping the defense on its back foot, not worrying about time of possession, and trying to score as many points per minute as possible.

All of those things are more or less standard operating procedure in college these days.

Oregon coach Chip Kelly — who visited the Patriots multiple times and talked to Bill Belichick about his offensive philosophy — is the visionary who pioneered the no-huddle offensive style at the University of New Hampshire in the mid-00s that dominates college football today. But he is hardly alone. Teams like Oklahoma State, West Virginia, and Arizona all copied Oregon's success and are now running their own mutant versions of the no huddle.